December 4, 2013
Issue #64 – 4th December 2013
News and Latest Developments
Australian National University (comprised of 8 universities) is building a private cloud for hosting its PeopleSoft applications (HCM, Student Admin and Financials) – alongside other systems.
A legal dispute between Bridgestone tyres and IBM over a failed ERP implementation has escalated into an acrimonious public war of words. Bridgestone hired IBM to rollout SAP, however after spending $75 million it failed upon going live. Bridgestone was forced to hire SAP directly to fix problems that IBM allegedly created. Bridgestone filed a lawsuit against IBM for $600 million, claiming $200 million in business losses and treble damages for fraud.
Oracle has released Bundle #15 for PeopleSoft CRM 9.1. (Support logon required)
Functional
Upgrading to 9.2 part 3 – Eliminate Customisations
Shamus Kahl (Senior Practice Director, Oracle Consulting) opines that elimination of customisations reduces complexity and enables easier take-up of newer functionality. It’s a sentiment that few would argue with, however very few clients go-live on a fully vanilla system and the opportunity to create carefully written and well documented improvements is something most clients deem essential.
‘TruptiG’ on the Hexaware blog discusses and walks through the process of enabling automatic case creation in PeopleSoft CRM HR Helpdesk.
Technical
Wade ‘Smart Panda’ Coombs talks us through the process of generating HTML Output from your Compare Reports and shares how he makes the output available to others on the project. Wade is also starting up a newsletter of his own which you can sign up for on his site.
There’s a post on the Citagus blog covering the functionality in the new mouse-over popup pages, what the display options are and the limits to what you can add without customisation.
Reading
Massachusetts police have admitted to paying a bitcoin ransom after being infected by the Cryptolocker ransomware. The virus encrypts your hard-drive and demands a ransom to return your data. The choice is either to pay up or revert to a backup, which embarrasses those without recent backups ….
Jessica Hische has a really interesting and well written post about how to network effectively and how to not ‘be creepy’. Much of it comes down to just being genuinely interested in the person rather than what they can offer you, it’s still a great read though.
During the Cold War nuclear missiles were installed at strategic locations around the world, but there was a top-secret launch code to prevent enemy agents or rogue commanders firing the missiles without proper authorisation. This launch code was the same for 20 years, but what was it?
Watching
Paco Aubrejuan (SVP of the PeopleSoft product line) discusses the changes made to the product delivery model for the 9.2 releases and beyond. It’s really interesting to hear Paco speak and to explain the thinking behind the changes. It’s well worth watching.
And Finally…
Amazon has got a lot of people talking this week by sharing the concept of replacing the delivery driver with flying drones, and have an aim to get your order to you within 30 minutes. It’s still a number of years off, but it’s a great glimpse into the future (will it be the norm to get your pizza delivered by drone?).
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November 20, 2013
Issue #63 – 20th November 2013
News and Latest Developments
PeopleSoft is recognized as “Best in Klas” in Healthcare for the Second Year in a Row. Rather confusingly, the award seems to be from 2012, but it was only posted on the PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog on Monday.
Oracle has snapped up Bitzer Mobile – a 3 year old company that focuses on security for the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) market. The key piece seems to be the service which carves out a secure space on your device which isolates corporate data from personal apps without compromising the user experience.
Oracle has been ranked very highly in the Nucleus Research HCM Value Matrix (similar to the Gartner Magic Quadrant) for the 2nd half of 2013.
Functional
Josh Bersin responds to an article earlier in the week suggesting that HR Departments are no longer critical, explaining exactly why they are not only still needed, but a vital part of corporate structure and are the “talent masters” and in today’s talent constrained environment.
Technical
This is a newly published page on My Oracle Support answering some of the biggest questions with PeopleSoft Update Manager (Support Login Required).
Jim Marion gives 10 top tips for styling the PeopleSoft PIA. A lot of people have seen the branded skin that Oracle have showcased over the last few years (green grass etc), and these are some of the techniques that he used to build it. We’ve often mulled over creating a site similar to
CSS Zen Garden to showcase attractively styled PeopleSoft pages from different customers and partners, maybe we should build it.
Oracle’s Mike Dietrich discusses the different reasons why customers sometimes avoid patching. The article is aimed mainly at database patching, but a lot of what he says is relevant in the apps world too.
Reading
Steve Cardell on the HR Magazine website argues that the greatest strides in Enterprise Tech are in the realm of HCM. It’s a bold claim – given the advances being made in CRM / Sales / Marketing systems – but he does have some good points.
Data
Is the placement of the hidden character in the red and white striped jumper entirely random, or could there be a pattern? Is there a better strategy than scanning left-to-right, top-to-bottom? Slate collected data on Waldo (US)/Wally (UK) placements in all 7 books and aggregated the result. It turns out that there is a better approach …
Infographic
UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface) are two different terms that are often confused. Kevin Liew explains how they differ using the unusual medium of cereal.
And Finally…
In the week that Internet darling Snapchat overtook Facebook (in terms of photos shared daily) and then
spurned a $3bn offer from them, ‘Selfie’ has been named the Dictionary’s Word of the Year. Tech terms on the short-list included BYOD, Bitcoin, Hackerspace, Internet of Things and Phablet, and they were joined by twerk and Cake Pop.
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November 13, 2013
Issue #62 – 13th November 2013
News and Latest Developments
Oracle has released the PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) image for CRM 9.2. Although images for HCM, Financials and ELM have been out for a while, this is the first CRM image that has been released (Support Login Required).
PeopleSoft has already delivered some functionality related to the new Defense of Marriage Act, and they plan on delivering additional functionality which will make compliance with this law even easier. Oracle have published further details in the linked Position Paper.
Jiju Vengal has an entry on the HRoi Blog about the integration between PeopleSoft HCM and Taleo, who it is available for, what it delivers, and how you must setup your structures in order for it to work.
Derek Tomei talks about the different types of testing seen on PeopleSoft projects, which ones you should perform, and the sequence that they should be performed in.
Rebekah Jackson continues her series of helpful hints on planning your upgrade toPeopleSoft 9.2. This week she talks about using the VirtualBox instances to quickly provision a demonstration environment.
Technical
Wade ‘Smart Panda’ Coombs discusses adding wildcard certificates toPeopleSoft keystores, and how you can apply them to multiple systems without creating a new CSR.
Graham Smith from Oxfam presented at OpenWorld on PeopleSoft and REST services. He has posted his presentation on his blog, alongside a download link for the code samples.
Reading
David Scott on the Mipro blog talks about the different stages of understanding the data in your system, and how you move from Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom.
On Tuesday, September 19th, 1989 UTA Flight 772 exploded whilst passing over the Sahara Desert. French investigators determined a suitcase bomb planted by Libyan terrorists to be the cause. All 170 people on board died. This story (which we’ve linked to above via the urban myth checking website Snopes.com) shows the incredible memorial that the families have created, which is visible from Google Maps (scroll down to see screenshots).
Infographic
Larry Grey gave an interesting presentation at the UKOUG Apps conference a couple of weeks ago on preventing people from Hacking PeopleSoft. Here Jillian Ponek follows up with a blog post on data breaches containing a nicely laid out infographic.
Watching
A 15 minute interview with Oracle President Mark Hurd about Oracle’s buy/build strategy, its recent results and whether Mark would like the role that he’s hotly tipped for, the top job at Microsoft.
And Finally…
This pair of clever Swedes have developed a revolutionary cycle helmet. The video is worth watching too, as it shows the helmet in action.
Spotted by
Paul Czarapata and
Dan Kibler on Twitter, this is a great new concept for a camera. It’s a ball of lenses that you throw in the air and it captures a 360 degree panorama.
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November 6, 2013
Issue #61 – 6th November 2013
News and Latest Developments
The latest version of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) – release 11.2.2.2 – is now available to PeopleSoft customers on PeopleTools 8.53. The minimum PeopleTools Patch Version Required to adopt SES 11.2.2.2 is PeopleTools 8.53.06.
A majority of Oracle shareholders have once again voted against the company’s executive pay practices, including for CEO Larry Ellison. The article also includes quotes from Larry – who didn’t seem too upset – on why Oracle has two Presidents, and which of their competitors cause them most concern.
Derek Tomei has a post on the IT Toolbox blog on how to ensure that the right support and measures of success are in place for your PeopleSoft project.
Jiju Vengal posts on his HRoi Consulting blog about the concept of Enterprise App Stores. There’s nothing listed on there yet for PeopleSoft, but it’s a great opportunity for customers to benefit from pre-built and supported bolt-ons.
Technical
Two Succeeders presented at the recent UKOUG Apps 2013 conference. The technical presentation “PeopleSoft in the Cloud” is available from here.
Reading
Animato’s Ramesh Kothuri attended OpenWorld this year, and has written up the biggest announcements.
Succeeder Dave spotted this article on The Register, where some curious soul has analysed the passwords of Adobe users stolen in the latest security snafu. Considering we expected most Adobe subscribers to be fairly IT literate, it is a shock that nearly 2m had a password of ‘123456’. It’d be interesting to compare the results against aPeopleSoft database …
Amazon have introduced a new service for their Kindle tablets called MayDay, which is a remote tech-support assistant that is available 24/7 and will connect within 15 seconds. Kind of like an online ‘Genius Bar’.
Utilities
Neil Yetman has an update on his GetLevel(0) blog of his usage of the PS Utilities tool, and how to best apply it.
Watching
Oracle has produced a new video on some of the 35 Pivot Grids that have been added in Financials 9.2 which can be used to improve the efficiency of your system.
And Finally…
This week we were impressed by this particularly cunning invention. Every year lives are lost during Police chases, be it the pursuer, the criminal themselves, or sometimes an innocent 3rd party. This invention could remove that risk, with the police simply using a GPS cannon to fire a tracking device at the fleeing vehicle. The police can then track the vehicle at a safer speed and apprehend them at their leisure.
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October 30, 2013
Issue #60 – 30th October 2013
News and Latest Developments
Oracle has released some updated PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) images. These are for HCM (9.2.003), Financials (also 9.2.003) and ELM (9.2.002), (Support Login Required). The first CRM image is due in early November.
John Webb and Rebekah Jackson have an entry on the PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog on the various tools and resources you can use to plan your upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2.
PeopleSoft Services Procurement, part of the PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) 9.2 suite of applications, was the subject of a positive article written by Jason Busch of the leading industry analyst firm Spend Matters.
Technical
Oracle have published a website with some design principles for the PeopleSoft UI. Much of it is aimed at homepages, dashboards and work centers rather than page design, but it’s still a useful resource on how your pagelets should look. There’s introductions to it by John Webb
here and Matthew Haavisto
here.
Chris Malek from the Cedar Hills Group looks at the Maximum Concurrent Processes property and shows how it can be used effectively.
Reading
Adrian Grigoriu (who is, coincidentally an EA at OFCOM) writes on the IT Toolbox blog on the difficulty of being an Enterprise Architect. “
Technology genius meets business strategist meets accomplished manager meets expert communicator… is a tall order“.
If you can ignore the expletive in the headline, this article discusses Google subsidiary Motorola’s Project Ara, which is taking the PhoneBlox concept (highlighted in a previous newsletter) and bringing it closer to reality. “
It almost goes without saying, but if Motorola (with Google’s backing) can make this work, it’s going to be an honest-to-goodness revolution in the smartphone industry.”
For a long while now, a criticism levelled at some techies as that they can only communicate in ‘tech jargon’ and that they need to learn to speak the language of everyday business-people. Is the tide turning however, and are business-people having to learn to talk-tech?
Training
Oracle has released some new videos of PeopleSoft Financials WorkCenters, and a homepage on My Oracle Support to allow easy access to them (Support Login Required).
Watching
Some of the Customers who’ve already upgraded to PeopleSoft 9.2 (across all product pillars) reveal the big plus points of upgrading to 9.2. It’s bizarre that they’ve all been recorded in front of a badly creased off-white sheet, but don’t let that detract from the positive messages that they give.
Yes, it’s a stunt to promote the upcoming remake of the movie Carrie, but it’s very well done. Better than the tricks are the facial expressions of the customers as they struggle to grasp what they’ve just seen.
And Finally…
For a couple of days last week a thick, choking smog enveloped cities in northeast China, closing schools and airports, snarling traffic and reducing visibility to a few yards. The government has ordered factory shutdowns and limits on car use, but will it be enough?
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October 23, 2013
Issue #59 – 23rd October 2013
This week is a double-edition as we missed last week due to the UKOUG Conference.
News and Latest Developments
Oracle has leap-frogged IBM to become the World’s 2nd largest software company with its sales edging ahead of its rival. This is of course, only software revenue (IBM’s hardware sales are higher than Oracle’s), and both are a good distance behind the clear leader (Microsoft). It’s still a nice little fillip for Oracle.
Oracle has released the PeopleTools 8.53.08 patch. There’s a good mix of fixes to resolve issues with IE10 support, PUM, PTF, lots for pagelets plus some fixes from the recent Critical Patch advisory. Also released were
PeopleTools 8.52.19 and
PeopleTools 8.51.25 (Support Login required).
Functional
Succeeder Michelle (our in-house T&L guru) rounds-up the improvements in HCM 9.2 specifically for Time & Labor and is really impressed.
Hakan Biroglu has written up his experiences with the new Mobile Time Entry functionality that we mentioned and included a video of (last time). Hakan has done the research to enable any early adopters to get it installed and up and running quickly and easily.
Technical
Stephen ‘Digital Eagle’ Phillips shares the code needed to initiate a process via PeopleCode – something that most of us have done at some point or other – but augments it with some useful code for waiting while the process completes. Very handy!
Jim Marion has posted links to his three Open World presentations online. You can also access the presentations (where they’ve been uploaded) for other sessions
here.
Reading
Former Apple Exec Tony Fadell started a new company a couple of years back named ‘Nest’, and they released a dramatically different home thermostat. Which household product did they target next? (Clue: most houses have them, but allegedly don’t use them properly as they’re too annoying!)
The voice of Apple’s voice assistant Siri has been revealed as Georgia-based voiceover actress Susan Bennett. Rather amusingly, she had no idea until a friend told her. There’s a video at the end where you can see the similarities between the voices which dispels any doubt. (NB: she provides the voice for Siri for much of the globe, but not the UK)
Infographic
Rather than a single Inforgraphic, this week shows a collection of the very best. There’s a few to look at here, but our favourite is the ‘Wikipedia Edit Wars’ (3rd on the 3rd row) which highlights – by language – which topics are most controversial. Persians quarrel most over Politics and Religion, whereas the Portuguese argue over Music, Sport and Films/TV. Scrolling down, you can see the most contested articles, and it seems that the Japanese find Korean topics most constroversial, whereas Germans look for articles on Croatia and Scientology.
Training
Oracle have released some more free web-based training, this time three 30 minute videos on preparing for your PeopleSoft upgrade.
Watching
A six minute video walking you through the steps needed to create an Activity Guide. Some activity guides have been delivered in the 9.2 applications, and there’ll be more coming in the Feature Packs, but if you want to start creating your own this shows you how.
The answer is of course, no. This chap has some very impressive Word skills.
And Finally…
From the always entertaining Mental Floss blog, here are 65 amusing facts. How about “At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL”? or “The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.” or “Barry Manilow did not write his hit “I Write the Songs.”
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October 2, 2013
Issue #58 – 2nd October 2013
Thanks to Travis from Spire Healthcare who was our 550th subscriber.
News and Latest Developments
New PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 functionality has been announced allowing customers to take advantage of AWE and respond to requests for approval without going in to PeopleSoft. There is no need for the approver to log into PIA to approve a request, users can take action and add comments directly from their email client.
Oracle have released mobile functionality for Timesheet entry, alongside their Expenses and Approvals applications. In addition to this post – which has links for further information – there’s a
YouTube video if you want to see it in action.
Open World
Oxfam’s Graham Smith recaps his experience from the first half of OpenWorld for us. Graham mentions MAPS and NUI (Mobile Applications for PeopleSoft and the Next Generation User Interface), which are features from future releases, plus Paco Aubrejuan’s (SVP PeopleSoft Enterprise Development) commitment to PeopleSoft “at least until 2027”!
Functional
The Mipro blog has an excellent series on running a PeopleSoft upgrade, from the Reasons Why a Project fails, through to this latest article summarising the make-or-break factors.
A great article from Forbes on the parallels between playing Lego with your children and Change Management in the workplace. Some of it is an excellent example of Best Practice, particularly Number 1 – “Start with what success looks like. Lego provides a complete and exciting picture of the final product right there on the box.”
Technical
The Hexaware blog has a overview of creating CI-backed Web Servcies in PeopleSoft, and a step-by-step screenshot walkthrough of how to create a custom Web Service.
Derek Tomei writes on the IT Toolbox blog about the Component Processor, and includes a handy flowchart to aid in understanding the sequence of events.
We’ve probably all been in a situation where Process Monitor shows a lot of unposted report content. It’s impractical to go into each in turn, so here’s a handy script from Nicolos Gasparotto to save you from the effort.
Reading
Entrepreneur Jason Roberts has written a well thought-out piece that he describes best “The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you’re passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated.” It’s a really neat concept.
I think most of us expect the autonomous car to replace taxi drivers and long-distance lorry drivers at some point in the future, however this article suggests that the advent of big-data that desk-based knowledge workers are at risk too.
Spotted by the
GreyHeller guys, this article shows how a new product called the Nymi can authenticate you via your heartbeat. There’s a bit of a ‘battle for your wrist’ at the moment, with the FitBit/JawBone Up type trackers, the plethora of Smart Watches and now this. We just need them all to be integrated into a single universal device.
Infographic
This isn’t an InfoGraphic, but it is a great display of useful information. Web Developer Matthew Somerville has used publicly available APIs and mashed it up with OpenStreetMaps to provide a real-time display of London Bus locations. Never wonder how long it is until your next bus arrives (he’s also done a similar mash-up for
the Tube).
Watching
Earlier this year a fireman found an unconscious kitten in the wreckage of a house. His rescue and revival of the lucky feline was captured on his helmet-camera.
And Finally…
An interesting read via
NextDraft about the life of a professional gaming academy in London. They take just 6 gamers a year, and train them to be the best. Our favourite quote – when asked about the health concerns of gaming for 12 hours a day – “it’s probably no worse than American football.”
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September 18, 2013
Issue #57 – 18th September 2013
News and Latest Developments
The agenda for the UKOUG Apps Conference has been released. There’s a lot PeopleSoft content, two streams spread over the Tuesday and Wednesday including Michelle and Duncan from Succeed, several slots from Grey Heller and some strong Oracle content.
Oracle have released the 7th patch for PeopleTools 8.53. It’s available for those with a support logon from the link above.
Functional
Eric Kimberling on the IT Toolbox blog writes on saving ERP Implementations from Organisational Silos. Most of us will have experienced this situation at some point and Eric has some suggestions on how to remove the barriers.
Manoranjan Gupta from the Hexaware blog details some of the new features inPeopleSoft Query and how you can use them to write larger queries with more capability to join records and the choice of alternate output formats.
Technical
Oracle’s Rebekah Jackson wrote this post on the new PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) functionality that Tools 8.53 has brought us. It’s well worth a read is it really transforms the way in which we’ll apply maintenance releases to PeopleSoftenvironments.
Jim Marion has refined his technique for outputting logging data to the stdout and stderr log files.
The Stephen ‘Digital Eagle’ Phillips has been experimenting with using alternative Cobol compilers with PeopleSoft. Like most, he’s found MicroFocus cobol frustrating – these are his findings while trying to find an alterantive.
Reading
A really interesting article discussion Dark Patterns – elements of UI designed to trick users into doing something that they wouldn’t normally do. These carefully crafted elements are built to misdirect and confuse users, whilst concealing the intention. Examples shown include Misdirection, Forced Continuity and Trick Questions.
Probably best filed under ‘reassuring’, rather than ‘useful’. Kit Eaton from Fast Company Labs has looked into the new fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s and details the reasons why it’s more secure than initially thought.
This article was spotted by Chris at Succeed. SAP is looking to recruit hundreds of people with autism, “Only by employing people who think differently and spark innovation will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century,” Luisa Delgado (SAP’s Chief Human Resources Officer) said earlier this year.
Infographic
We at Succeed love a good infographic, feeling that it often aids in quickly analysing data. However, this amusing site catalogues examples of when data visualisations get in the way of understanding the data.
Watching
The America’s Cup may not be going exactly to plan, but it’s still an engrossing sport to watch. The above video shows the Oracle yacht whipping around the bay raised on the Hydrofoils – it seems almost supernatural to see such a huge boat supported on such small blades. Also, there’s an innovative use of the same technology in
another sport.
And Finally…
Women have made a significant contribution to everyday life with a string of inventions. Here are some of the most surprising top 25. Bullet-proof Vest and Circular Saws?
We’re a fan of Kohsuke Kawaguchi (he’s the brains behind the Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration system). Like most of us, he plays lego with his children, although rather typically he does it on a different scale to most. We particularly like the way minor details like crust thickness and height from sea level frustrate such a perfectionist.
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September 4, 2013
Issue #56 – 4th September 2013
News and Latest Developments
Oracle have made available the next round of VirtualBox instances for HCM and Financials. These images are what customers on the latest App and Tools versions will be using with PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM), (Support Login required).
Open World
Oracle are hosting an extra stream at OpenWorld this year. They’ve announced the new ‘HCM @ OpenWorld’ programme held in separate locations from the main conference and designed specifically for those with a focus on HCM.
A nice little article pointed out by Siddhartha Chaturvedi. It covers the recent changes in CRM systems, and what the next big leap is going to be. Much of this also applies to HCM too.
A post by Eric Noack on the Animato blog on what exactly it means when a metric is ‘actionable’, and how it makes a difference to the usefulness of the data displayed.
A post by Satesh Kumar on the Hexaware blog about the Moneyball movie and how it’s related to big data and analytics.
There’s a new post by Lee Greffin on an issue with nVision and DFS.
Reading
What you do you see when you look at the cloud? An interesting exchange between VC and Internet giant Marc Andreessen (a big public cloud proponent) and Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware (who obviously favours a hybrid cloud solution).
This is a fascinating ‘unauthorised biography’ of Marissa Mayer, the ex-Googler who was behind many of its biggest products and who is now the CEO of Yahoo (and looks to be turning the company around).
One of the hottest topics in design is Flat UI. It is clean, crisp, two-dimensional, has open spaces and uses bright colors. Part of the reason that it’s becoming popular is that it gives greater emphasis to function rather than style. This article shows what is added and subtracted to give an older icon a more modern appearance.
Infographic
There have been a lot of column inches this week dedicated to the Microsoft purchase of the Nokia mobile division (including one wag who summed it up with the phrase “can two wrongs make a right?”). This brief infographic gives some perspective. (from Luke Millar on Twitter).
And Finally…
Succeeder Dave spotted this fun list from Gizmodo on the 50 things a geek should know. It’s a tough test (the top score in Succeed is 22). Can you get all 50?
What is it like to be a grown adult in 2013 and have no idea what the internet is? Justine Sharrock from BuzzFeed asks some prisoners at California’s San Quentin State Prison how they imagine it to be.
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August 28, 2013
Issue #55 – 28th August 2013
News and Latest Developments
Last week’s issue had a video of this new product, but now it’s generally available. This brings the power of Endeca running on Exalytics hardware to bear on unstructured data, and makes it available from within PeopleSoft.
Matthew Haavisto has announced that the VirtualBox demo instance of the Interaction Hub is now available on Oracle Support.
Following on from last week’s story of IBM being banned from projects in Queensland, this time it’s Fujitsu’s turn. Any project that burns through $50m (the budget was $14m) and goes through 11 Project Managers in 3 years is going to be in trouble though. Even now it’s (belatedly) live, they still can’t agree whether it delivers 12% or 97% of the requirements.
Oracle ACE Director, Oxfam Head Tech and friend of Succeed, Graham Smith is coming to OpenWorld, and he’ll be cramming all he knows about RESTful web services and PeopleSoft into a mere 50 minutes. Make sure he’s on your agenda.
IntraSee’s session will also be worth a look.
The Hexaware blog has an article discussing the merits of PeopleSoft HR Helpdesk. Succeed have noticed an increase in interest in the product recently, so it’s well worth a read.
Over the last couple of weeks Oracle have released a number of patches for the HR suite. These include HR9.1 Bundle 13, some Payroll Tax updates, HR9.1 Maintenance Pack 13 and the 2013-C Global Payroll update (Support Login Required).
Succeeder Dave spotted this article on the Animato blog. It lists some of the bugs that they’ve encountered (and raised) and how to work around them.
There’s a useful post on the Hexaware blog showing the different flavours of Hadoop and the services that can be placed on top of Hadoop to integrate and enhance it further.
Reading
According to his biographer, Ellison sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.” He’s not alone though, as other billionaires are also searching for the same ‘cure’.
Was a computer glitch to blame for opening all of the cell doors at a maximum security prison in Florida, where an inmate had to jump off of a balcony to avoid a stabbing?
Infographic
Not exactly an infographic this week, more of a mind-map, but it’s still worth sharing. It shows where some of the most successful ex-Oracle executives have ended up. The article also talks about Ellisons ‘Management By Ridicule’ style, and how he helped shape the Iron Man character.
And Finally…
A fascinating list of fallacies that many of us take for granted. Bulls aren’t enraged by the colour red. Life expectancy in the Middle Ages was a lot longer than most people think. Searing meat does not seal in moisture. The Great Wall of China is not visible from space. And most disappointingly of all, a duck’s quack is not the only sound that does not echo, apparently its echo is just difficult to hear.
A short YouTube video on the brave people who dangle themselves out of windows high above the streets of NYC. It’s not a career choice we’d have made, but you have to respect their work.
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